Senior Backend Engineer (High-Throughput Platforms) in United States at Jobgether

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (High-Throughput Platforms) in the United States.

This role sits at the core of building and scaling high-performance backend platforms that power mission-critical systems used across multiple engineering teams. You will design and operate distributed systems capable of handling massive traffic volumes while maintaining predictable latency, resilience, and efficiency. The position focuses on creating shared platform capabilities such as event-driven pipelines, caching layers, request routing, and asynchronous processing frameworks that accelerate product development across the organization. You will work in a deeply technical environment where system design, reliability, and performance engineering are key priorities. Collaboration with infrastructure, SRE, and product engineering teams is essential to ensure scalable and secure platform evolution. This is a high-impact opportunity for engineers passionate about distributed systems and building foundational infrastructure at scale.

You will design, build, and evolve high-throughput backend platforms and shared infrastructure services that support multiple engineering teams.

• Architect and develop internal platform services supporting request routing, traffic management, caching, and asynchronous processing at large scale.
• Design and implement event-driven and streaming systems using technologies such as Apache Kafka and similar messaging infrastructures.
• Build durable, replayable pipelines for data processing, event handling, and background job execution across distributed systems.
• Define and maintain platform SDKs, libraries, and abstractions that enable consistent and efficient product development.
• Design systems with strong focus on scalability, fault tolerance, multi-region resilience, and predictable latency under high load.
• Establish observability standards, SLIs/SLOs, and capacity planning practices to ensure operational excellence.
• Lead incident response for critical platform issues and drive post-mortem analysis with long-term reliability improvements.
• Partner with infrastructure, SRE, and security teams to ensure compliance, performance, and system robustness.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to architectural decision-making and platform engineering standards.

You bring deep expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, and high-performance platform development.

• 6+ years of backend or platform engineering experience in high-scale environments.
• Strong hands-on experience designing distributed systems with emphasis on reliability, latency, and scalability.
• Advanced proficiency in a backend programming language such as Java, Go, Scala, Rust, or C++.
• Proven experience building and operating shared platforms or infrastructure used by multiple engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of event-driven systems, streaming architectures, and messaging frameworks such as Apache Kafka or equivalent tools.
• Experience working with relational, NoSQL, and distributed storage systems.
• Strong system design skills with the ability to evaluate trade-offs across consistency, availability, and performance.
• Experience leading multi-quarter technical initiatives and influencing architectural direction.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical decisions clearly.
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to engineering best practices across teams.

• Competitive base salary aligned with experience and expertise
• Full-time W2 employment with long-term stability
• 100% remote work across the United States
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off and holidays
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• Opportunity to work on large-scale distributed systems and platform engineering challenges
• Exposure to cutting-edge high-throughput architecture and event-driven technologies
• Strong engineering culture focused on reliability, performance, and scalability
• Career growth opportunities through technical leadership and mentorship paths